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i feel like there is an appropriate middle ground somewhere between "shiny-new-toy" and ncurses...
by gmadsen 6y ago
i feel like there is an appropriate middle ground somewhere between "shiny-new-toy" and ncurses...
- grandinj 6y agoIt's probably a 15+ year old application, which, if it was web-based, would be built on 2-3 out-of-date webstacks, badly joined together, with who knows how many security flaws. Compared to maintaining that, ncurses doesn't sound too bad.
- lemoid 6y agoTrue. I used to provide dev teams with cli tools (testing, infrastructure debugging, etc.). They used them from time to time but only after implementing basic gui with tkinter or simple html/js/css they started to use them more often. I prefer terminal more than gui but if you don't use terminal 90% of the time it's much easier to click the button on a website.
- c0l0 6y agoYou are right - that's ncursesw ;)
- axegon_ 6y agoHypothetically... Late 90's web, which wasn't bloated with 150mb javascript files which run your CPU at 10000000%...